Dear curling friends, A curling tent is an idea that we had for past several years but never had the means to materialize it. Now that we did and it was a success and enabled us to play, practice and promote curling on a playable ice and at a reasonable cost even for a small and economically destabilized country like Serbia we want to SHARE with you WHAT and HOW we did it.

We can also offer you our solutions at prices we had (we were able to negotiate discounts that apply only for us, but we think that "regular" prices are also fair). Please feel free to download our report in PDF and recommend it to others.

It is a copyright of Marko Stojanović & Friends, you can use it freely with mentioning the copyrights owners as follows: Copyright - Marko Stojanović & Friends (contact:

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; +381600320169).

If you want to have it on your web site please put a link to our web site. We hope this report will be of help to you or at least inspire you to find new solutions and share them with the curling community.

Thank you, Marko Stojanović

03. 02. 2011

PRESIDENT OF THE SERBIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESENTED TROPHIES TO FIRST CURLING CHAMPIONS

President of the Olympic Committee of Serbia Mr.Vlade Divac, presented trophies today in the Olympic House to the winners of the first National Curling Championships.

First Men’s National Curling Championship was held from January 22nd to 27th on the first covered curling rink in Serbia, in front of the "Confluence " Shopping Mall in New Belgrade.

Four teams competed for the champions title and the final standings are:

1. CC Taurunum from Zemun-Belgrade2. Royal Curling Club from Belgrade3. CC Vigled from Valjevo4. CC Host (Domaćin) from Novi Sad

“The ice was great, and we also received congratulations from the President of the European Curling Federation for our work" said President of the National Curling Association of Serbia Mr.Marko Stojanovic and added:"support from the NOC of Serbia and its President Mr.Vlade Divac is of immense importance for us and our efforts to implement curling in Serbia. In our association if a curler wants to be registered as a competitive sports person, in addition to all health and sports conditions, he or she have to pass a test of knowledge of history of the Olympic Movement, National Olympic Committee and sport of curling (wheelchair curling inclouded).”

President of the National Curling Association of Serbia and at the same time President of the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education of Serbian NOC Mr.Marko Stojanović presented the President of the Serbian Olympic Committee with a set of medals from the first Serbian Curling Championship thus starting an endowment of the National Curling Association of Serbia at the Olympic Museum.

ECF PRESIDENT CONGRATS SERBIAN ASSOCIATION

Recently the President of the ECF Mr.Andrew Ferguson-Smith wrote about Belgrade Curling Cup No.1 on the official ECF FaceBook page:

“The E.C.F. was represented last weekend at the 1st. Belgrade Curling Cup by ExCo member Andras Rokusfalvy. Our congratulations go to Marko Stojanovic and his curlers for this event, together with our best wishes for Serbian curling!”

When he read about the closing of the Belgrade Curling Tent his words of encouragement on FaceBook were:

“Congratulations on this excellent initiative anyway! Good luck for the remainder of the season, and for Belgrade curling next winter!”

31. 01. 2011

ICE ON FIRE IN BELGRADE

The golden cup and medals stay in Belgrade! The temperature in Belgrade below -6 but the Belgrade Curling Tent was full of people watching the game between Belgrade’s “Confluence” Curling Team and 3 curlers from Zagreb, Croatia that were joined by some curling debutants from Belgrade and were competing under the name Curling Team “Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi“ (Stange Skittler & Wolves-who previously withdrew from the Cup in the last minute).

Weather was freezing but the ice was on fire. It was a bad start for the Confluence team as they were down 3 in the first End and another one in the second, but then under a guidance of the young skip Djordje Nešković (only 19 Yo) they regrouped and started coming back – one in the 3rd End and very important 3 stones in the 4th End.

After a lot cheering all the voices froze understanding that the curlers need all the concentration they can get. The time limit of 75 minutes to complete the game was warring out quickly in the 5th End.

The last stone of the 5th End was played in the last second of the game and the suspense was on for another few seconds.... Finally the Confluence Curling Team won by one stone.

Everybody went on ice cheering, being happy for their curlers but most important as Belgrade had its first covered curling ice, curling games, national and international competition. Marko Stojanović, Bojan Mijatović, Dara Gravara-Stojanović, Saša Šekarić, Rade Čulić, Tatjana Jeftić, Djordje Nešković, Dragana Simjanović, Goran Ungurović, National Curling Association of Serbia, Royal Curling Club from Belgrade, Confluence Shopping Centre, MTS Telecom Serbia, Quantum Skating Rinks, Municipalities of New Belgrade, Old Town and Čukarica made HISTORY.

The bronze medals and cup were awarded by the representative of Eurosport Serbia Mr.Predrag Vukasović to CT Senyor from Budapest, Hungary, silver by Mr.Slobodan Igrutinović, Secretary General of the Sports Journalist Association of Serbia to “Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi“ from Zagreb, Croatia (and Belgrade) and the golden cup and medals by the General Manager of the Touristic Organization of Belgrade Mr.Dejan Veselinov to the Confluence Curling Team from Belgrade, Serbia.

Hungarian skip and president of Hungarian Curling Association as well as ECF Representative for Eastern Europe Mr.Andras Rokusfalvy thanked the organisers for hospitality and good organisation and stated that the curling tent is a big step for Serbian curlers but possibly for others in other countries that do not dedicated curling ice. He said just like the Croatian skip Mr.Neven Pufnik after him that they are all looking forward to coming back to Belgrade for curling, having good time and some tourism too. They all felt very welcome in Belgrade and Mr.Pufnik added that he was hopping to have some ice like this in Croatia soon too.

After a group photo all present went for a hot wine infront of the Confluence Shopping Centre offered by Curling Association of Belgrade and Marko Stojanović.

The organisers wish to thank all the teams participating at this international event stating also that there was only one ladies team and one mixed.

BELGRADE CURLING CUP No.1 is closed for curling and we are all preparing for No.2 !

Hot News: Bronze goes to Hungary

FINAL DAY OF THE BELGRADE CURLING CUP No.1

Belgrade, Confluence Shoping Center, 30.10.2011.

After wining against the only ladies team CT „Darumice“, Croatias CT „Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi“ will meet Confulence CT from Belgrade in the finals compeeting for a golden cup and medals of the Belgrade Curling Cup no.1.

This morning CT Senyor from Budapest, Hungary won against CT Penda from Belgrade and will play a bronze game aginst CC „Host“ (Domaćin) from Novi Sad.

Todays results

CT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi : CT Darumice = 8 : 2

CT Penda : CT Senyor = 1 : 12

Yesterdays results – Appendx

CT Darumice :CT Senyor = 0 : 11

CT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi : CT Penda = 8 : 2

After the final game starting at 4PM, there will be a ceremony at 5:30PM during which the General Manager of the Turist Organisation of Belgrade Mr.Dejan Veselinov will be giving medals and cups together with Mr.Slobodan Igrutinović, Secretary General of the Sports Journalist Association of Serbia (Member of AIPS) and Predrag Vukanović representative of Eurosport Serbia.

29. 01. 2011

"CONFLUENCE" CURLING TEAM IS THE FIRST FINALIST OF THE BELGRADE CUP

After half a bonspiel is over we already know the first finalist - Confluence Curling Team had won its games in the "Sava" Group and took first place in the group with 8 points. It is a team made up of three members of the Serbian National Curling Team, Bojan Mijatović and Djordje Nešković that alternate as skips, Goran Ungurović as the second and Bojan Bradić who is atheltics coach of the National Team as well as the coach at the "Partizan" Athletic Club.

The second place in the "Sava" Group was won by the CC Host (KK "Domaćin") from Novi Sad after a game with CC Danube which they won with a score of 5 to 1. That will alow them to compete for a third place tomorrow at 14h.

Other results of the first half of the Belgrade Curling Cup No.1:

CC Host : CC Danube 5 : 1

Confulence CT : CT Host 6 : 1

Senyor CT : CT Čudnovаti Čunjаš & Vukovi 1 : 7

CT Dаrumice - CT Pendа 6 : 0

Confulence CT - CT Danube 9 : 2

CT Danube - Confulence CT 0 : 10

CT Danube - CT Host 3 : 4

Confulence CT - KK Domаćin 7 : 5

CC Vukovi (Wolves) from Belgrade decided at the last minute (on the 28th of January) not to participate but to have few of its players curl for the CC "Čudnovati Čunjaš" from Zagreb (Croatia) took us all by surprise. The organizers found this decision very unfair and unsporting as it endangered the competition in the "Sava" group which was left with only 3 teams to play so they decided to play double Round Robin in this group.

The organizers from Curling Association of Belgrade and National Curling Association of Serbia want to thank all the teams in the "Sava" Group as some of them had to play three games per day even two games in a row. The motivation for such an unpleasant move of the CC Vukovi as stated by their president was to show that Croatian and Serbian curlers can play together which we salute but the fact that Croatian curlers applied for competing at our curling cup was probably enough of a statement that curling was bringing our two nations closer together and it was not necessary to endanger the whole tournament especially as organizers had to reject two teams from participating to keep the number of teams at 8 to be able to finish all the games this weekend.

28. 01. 2011

BELGRADE CURLING CUP No.1

GROUPS AND GAME SCHEDULE

Grupe „Sava“:

KT Ušće (Curling Team "Confluence"), Belgrade, Serbia

KT Dunav (Curling Team "Danube"), Belgrade, Serbia

KK Domaćin (Curling Team "Host"), Novi Sad, Serbia

Grupe „Danube“:

KK Daruma (Curling Club "Daruma"), Belgrade, Serbia

CT Senyor (Budapest, Hungary)

KT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi (Zagreb, Croatia & Belgrade, Serbia)

KT Penda (Curling Team "Penda"), Belgrade, Serbia

Friday, 28.01.2011.:

11h KT Ušće – KK Domaćin

13h KK Ušće - KT Dunav

15h KK Daruma - KT Penda

17h KT Ušće - KT Dunav

19h KT Dunav - KK Domaćin

Saturday, 29.01.2011.:

11h KT Ušće - KK Domaćin

13h Senyor - KT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi

15h KT Dunav – KK Domaćin

17h KK Daruma - Senyor

19h KT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi - KT Penda

Sunday, 30.01.2011.:

10h Senyor - KT Penda

12h KK Daruma - KT Čudnovati Čunjaš & Vukovi

14h Za III Mesto: „Sava“ 2 – „Dunav“ 2

16h FINALE: „Sava“ 1 – „Dunav“ 1

27. 01. 2011

BELGRADE CURLING CUP No.1

Belgrade Curling Tent, January 28th to 30th 2011

Confluence Shopping Centre, Belgrade, SERBIA

Games start at> Friday&Saturday: 11, 13, 15, 17 i 19 hours

Sunday: 10, 12, 14 and 16 hours

RULES:

The right to participate have all the curlers whether they are professional, amateur, recreational curler or just beginners from Serbia or abroad.

The players in teams do not have to be of the same gender but the gender equality principle must be respected. Teams can be men’s, women’s or mixed (2 men and 2 women)

The fee of 4000,00 Serbian Dinars (fourthousendserbiandinars) or 40 Euros (fortyeuros) was paid to the CAB bank dinars account in Alpha Bank in Belgrade (Acc.No.: 1180-1011210018927-64) or to the CAB official in cash who is obliged to make the payment to the CAB bank account in their name. Organizers of this tournament have the right not to allow Team to play if the fee was not paid.

All the teams, clubs and players must respect all the anti-doping rules stated in the World Anti-Doping Code (WADA documents), The Law for Doping Prevention of the Republic of Serbia, Anti-Doping Rules of the Anti-Doping Agency of the Republic of Serbia and National Olympic Committee of Serbia

We can accept an optimum of 8 teams that will be divided in to 2 groups named: Group „Sava“ and Group „Danube“ as Belgrade lies on the confluence of those two rivers and Belgrade Curling Tent is in front of the Confluence Shopping Centre

First faze of the tournament is Round Robin faze within each group.

The ranking will be done according to the: Number of wins (win=2 points, loss=1 point), number of stones in, number of ends won, and the sum of the draw challenge before each mach.

The second faze are the final games as follows: Sava 1 – Danube 1 for the first and second place, and Sava 2 – Danube 2 for the third and fourth place.

Six ends games will played and the minimum of 4 ends must be completed to allow a team to forfeit.

Timeouts are not allowed and there is a 5 minute brake after the 3rd end that can be used. If all the players decide with consensus they can continue the game without using the brake so that they would have 5 more minutes to play.

The game must be finished in all in 75 minutes, 5 minutes break included.

If the game is not finished in 75 minutes, the end that is being played will be finished and score after that end will become official.

The game should be played in a timely manner. The Umpire can ask players to speed up the game and the player who is delivering the stone has 45 seconds to do it.

Four stone rule applies.

Each team has 10 minutes of worm up time before each game.

Before each game the team line up can be changed but it has to be reported to the Umpire on the proper form

If the team does not have proper equipment it can use the equipment provided by the National Curling Association of Serbia.

All the games are played at the Belgrade Curling Tent in front of the Confluence Shpping Centre

Players do not have to be members of any curling club or federation.

The team must consist of at least 3 players of it own and can borrow one or two players from other teams if the other team will allow them.

One player can not play for more than two teams and must confirm in writing which is his/hers primary team.

If a game is played between teams that have a player playing for both teams, that player must play for his primary team.

Second borrowed player that (acts like an alternate) can enter the game after the 3rd end and stay till the end of the game.

First end of each game teams must start with 4 players, after that they can continue the game with only 3 players.

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BELGRADE CURLING CUP NO.1 - GOOD CURLING, EVEN BETTER FUN!

OPEN TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO EXPERINENCE BELGRADE NIGHT LIFE AND PLAY CURLING!

Friday 28th to Sunday 30 January, 2011.

First curling tournament in Belgrade, Serbia will take place on our 1 sheet of curling ice under a tent in front of the biggest and busiest Shopping Center “Ušće” (Confluence as it is on the confluence of rivers Sava and Danube).

It is a very short notice as we did not know what would the ice look like under the tent - The ice is not perfect, it is barely playable but Belgrade is famous for partying, restaurants, disco boats and GOOOOOD TIME!!!!

The bonspiel is open for everybody and it can be played in men’s, women’s or mixed teams.

We can accept only 8 teams

The fee is 40 Euros per team just to cover some of the costs, so all other costs like travel, lodging, food, drinks, partying are at the expense of the players or teams…

Organizers are Curling Association of Belgrade with the help of the National Curling Association of Serbia!

If you want to apply send us an e-mail to
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and we will send you all the necessary forms and payment instructions.

We can also provide you with some assistance in finding a hotel, hostel or apartment in Belgrade.